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MacGyver Guru Joined: 12/05/2009 Location: United StatesPosts: 1329
Posted: 06:52am 08 Sep 2012
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As you may know, I've moved my base of operations to Nevada, Texas. Nevada is about 20 or so miles East of Mc Kinney Texas, where my PhD Aeronautical Engineer son lives. I've been staying with him and driving back and forth to my "farm". Along the way, there's a place with two of these contraptions. One is smaller than the other and the larger one is probably no more than one meter in diametr.
From the front end, it resembles a compression wheel and I watched it in a pretty stiff wind (about 15 mph) but I could count the revolutions and it wasn't ever more than 200. I don't see this is much of a viable power source, but it was fun to see and photograph.
I'm in the process of finishing off the barn's interior (my new backshed) and when that's a done deal, I'll start building more wind spinner toys and posting again (it's been a long dry season for me in that arena). One of the first contraptions will be a VAWT like you've never seen before. The single, enclosed blade, if I'm able to build it like I want to, will be on the order of 3 feet wide and 8 feet in diameter and weigh in at around two pounds. I'm hoping to pull about 1KW from it in a steady wind, which I have here on a daily basis.
Hide and watch.
Edit: Typo
. . . . . MacEdited by MacGyver 2012-09-10Nothing difficult is ever easy!
Perhaps better stated in the words of Morgan Freeman,
"Where there is no struggle, there is no progress!"
Copeville, Texas
434josh Newbie Joined: 13/06/2012 Location: United StatesPosts: 10
Posted: 06:38am 10 Sep 2012
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That's pretty cool.
I actually live about 35 miles north west of McKinney. Collinsville is the towns name. Hopefully I will have the chance to see some of your mills from the road one day.
Madness Guru Joined: 08/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2498
Posted: 10:31am 10 Sep 2012
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Looks like it should be a VAWT.
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MacGyver Guru Joined: 12/05/2009 Location: United StatesPosts: 1329
Posted: 05:59pm 10 Sep 2012
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@ 434josh
I live in Nevada, TX. It's WAY out in the sticks. As soon as I've got the time, I'll toss up a Web page and hand out the URL here so you and everyone else can keep track of my shenanigans.
. . . . . MacNothing difficult is ever easy!
Perhaps better stated in the words of Morgan Freeman,
"Where there is no struggle, there is no progress!"
Copeville, Texas
Downwind Guru Joined: 09/09/2009 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2333
Posted: 08:16pm 10 Sep 2012
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[quote]where my PhD Aeronautical Engineer son lives. I've been staying with him and driving back and forth to my "farm".[/quote]
Thats lucky, you can borrow your lawn mower back that you bitched about him taking some years back
Pete.Edited by Downwind 2012-09-12Sometimes it just works
MacGyver Guru Joined: 12/05/2009 Location: United StatesPosts: 1329
Posted: 11:43am 11 Sep 2012
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@ Pete
I did one even better; I bought a brand new John Deere riding lawnmower instead:
. . . . . MacNothing difficult is ever easy!
Perhaps better stated in the words of Morgan Freeman,
"Where there is no struggle, there is no progress!"
Copeville, Texas
Downwind Guru Joined: 09/09/2009 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2333
Posted: 05:43pm 11 Sep 2012
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Hell!, you could tow the caravan with that.
You must be getting lazy in single life.
Pete.Sometimes it just works
Tinker Guru Joined: 07/11/2007 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1904
Posted: 03:56am 12 Sep 2012
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Now, let's see if you can convert that machine to run on compressed air, harvested from your windmills Klaus
Downwind Guru Joined: 09/09/2009 Location: AustraliaPosts: 2333
Posted: 04:32am 12 Sep 2012
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[quote]Now, let's see if you can convert that machine to run on compressed air, harvested from your windmills [/quote]
Methane Gas, might be more like it. Beans again for dinner???
That reminds me, Hows the diet going Mac, did you reach your target.
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